OBITUARY.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1767, 4 June 1913, Page 7

OBITUARY.

SIR ALFRED AUSTIN.

POET LAUREATE. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright London, Juno 2. ' Sir Alfred Austin, the Poet Laureate, is dead. Sir Alfred Austin, Poet Laureate since 1896,' was born in 1835; educated at btonihurst, Oscott, and graduated at London University in 1853; barrister ot the inner Temple, • 1857; engaged in f° rc ,v travel and the study ot literature on tho . death of his father. I'ublicatiMS; liondobh" "A Tale of Polish Grief (l&rf). "Tho'Season," "A Satire" (1861); Ihe Golden Age," "Interludes, Child," "Tho Tower of Babel. The • Hu man Tragedy," ' Savonarola. tho Bastard, 5 "Lynial Poems. Narrative Poems." 'Trinco Lucifer, Fortimatus tho Pessimist." "Alfred the Great, England s "Tho Conversion of Winckelmann" and "'Other .Pooms (ISM. "A Talo of True Lovo (1902), rioJupn Field," "A Tragedy" (1903), . Tho Dooi of Humility" (1906), "Sacred and P r °fc° e Lovo" (IMS). His prose works in elude. "The Garden That I ov °.. , to: nica's Garden,"-and "Lamias Winter Quarters", "Spring and Autumn in Ireland" (1900), "Haunts of Ancient leace (1902) "A Lesson in . Harmony ■ "The' Bridling of Pegasus" (1910), Autobiography" (1011). / SIR HENRY CURTIS BENNfiTT. London, June 3. , Sir Henry Curtis Bennett, Metropolitan , Polico Magistrate at Bow Street since 1908 was suddenly taken ill when leaving tho platform at a Mansion Houso meeting, and collapsed, expiring in a few minutes. Sir Henry Curtis Bennett hold the position of Revising Magistrate for Essex (1881), Metropolitan Polico Magistrate for West -London (1886), Marylebone (1895), and Bow Street (1908). He was knighted a few days after,a startling experience which befell him on May 11 last when sitting on. the Bench. !A bomb, containin" a cartridge with a percussion cap exposed, and a nail driven through tho lid of the tin box in which -»as the explosive, was delivered per post to him. He detected its nature, 'and it rras given to the police.